Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-04
DAILY HERALD.
MRS. ROzELLE.
Beginning Of the vitriol
Case.
CHAs. PETRIES TESTIMONY.
He Tells the Oft Repeated Story
of the Throwing of the
Acid.

of the Throwing Of the
Acid.
The trial of Grettie Rozelle, charged
With the vitriol throwing, was re-
sumed yesterday morning before
Judge Gardiner in Department One
of the Superior Court.
The defendant was present with her
husband. She was dressed in deep
black. For the first time she raised
her veil and displayed her features to
the morbid gaze of courtroom full
of spectators. She was surrounded
with five attorneys, each one showing
by his confident expression that he
imagined that the weight of the case
rested upon his shoulders. A differ
ent attorney ycross-examined each of the
vitness for the defense. Frequently
during the afternoon District Attorney
Dupuy cast admiring glances at the
defendant's side of the room and
looked as though he would be willing
to give his last years salary if he had
such an able and numerous string OF
assistants.
Considerable time was consumed
in completing the jury. FL
nally two additional jurors
were obtained and the Jury now stands
rs follows: George Sebastian, l..
Barnes, w. L. Sidewell, c. w. Cole,
w. Wilkerson, d. G. Wilson. w. u.
Watson, John McIlwail, j. w. Mick
erson, James Quill, A. S. Mills and );
r. Browne. The case then opened
and the complaint was read to the
jury.
Charles Petrie, the victim OF Mrs.
Rozelle's decorative powers, was the
first witness called. He assembled the
witness stand, and seated in full view
of the jury, he exposed to view num-
Der of scars which will adorn his face
for life. He gave his testimony in a
steady tone Of voice and re-revived the
facts of the case as heretofore pub
lished. The court then took recess
until afternoon.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At 1 80 O'Clock Court reconvened,
and C. r. Petrie, the prosecuting
witness, was recalled. During recess
he had drawn diagram of the scene
of the vitriol-throwing, and when
Court opened he was called to explain
it to the jury. He did so, and,
with a stick in his hand, he pointed
out the different portions of the room.
He said: "Since December LIST occu-
pied my room. Mr.. Rozelle came to
the house shortly afterwards, but his
wife was in the States. l staid there
until January 5th. then went to my
home in Virginia City, and staid there
until the 10th of April. / then came
back to Los Angeles. l became ac-
quainted with Mrs. Rozelle shortly
after she came here, in December"
Counsel for the prosecution asked
the witness if he had any trouble with
Mrs. Rozelle prior to his departure?
Counsel for the defense objected on
the ground that anything that hap
pened prior to May 11th, 1887, had
nothing to do with the case. The
Court sustained the objection.
"On the 7th of the month was
writing q letter, and Mrs. Rozelle
knocked on the wall of our room. l
did not answer, but she opened my
door and called me into her room. l
went into the room and she shut the
door, and objected. She asked me
If had not talked about her? l said
i had not. She repeated the question
and l told her, oh yes; l have told
all the boys on the road. She said
this is no laughing matter, and sat
down. l heard noise down stairs,
and l left her room and went into
mine. She said, shut your door,
and did so. heard Will (her hus-
handy come in"
Cross examined-"I l am q years of
age, and was born in Adrian, Michigan.
/ have lived five years in this State.
l am married. lived in Nevada be-
fore came to this State. l have
lived in Sacramento, Oakland and
Truckee. was married in Auburn.
/ first met Mrs. Rozelle in December
of last year. l first came to Los An
geles n 1882. was running a loco
motive for the Southern Pacific Com
pany. l have run it ever since except
for three months in 1886. During that
time l ran a fire engine in this city.
know Mr.. Rozalle; he worked on
the same road with me, but on a diff
ferent division. don't think l knew
Rozelle before his wife came to live in
the house 129 College street. When
i came back from Virginia City l ran
an engine between here and Sumner.
On the 10th of May at night arrived
here on my last trip from Sumner. l
met Mrs. Kozelle in the hallway of
the house. We received no introduce
ton. She spoke to me herself. had
seen her once or twice but we had
never spoken before. She was Just
coming out of door and she said,
Show do you do Mr.. Petrie." | saw
her number of times afterwards but
l did not get real well acquainted with
her until after was sick. | laid
off on the 10th Of January. When
was sick, at that time, 1 was in bed
seven or eight days. She came into
my room, and saw her in the hall
standing in my door. She came in
my room and gave me her history
and told me all about her husband
and about her relatives on the Hud-
son. She said that her husband was
Jealous of her for the reason that he
had led fast life in his youth. She
first met him ION a train. She
s'mashed" him and wanted him to
come and see her. A long time after
ward he called and they ran away to
st. Louis and were married. A short
time afterward her folks found out
that they had been married at St.
Louis and made him fhave another
ceremony performed at Elmira. 1t
was ON the 7th day OF May. Mrs. Ro-
zelle knocked ON the wall. Mrs. Ro-
zelle said that her husband was play
ing bank. When l went into the
room she held her head up and